A guest post by Eric Chu just went live over at the Android Developers blog, officially announcing the expansion of the Android market to 20 new countries. While we can't exactly say we didn't see this coming (and have an idea what countries it was coming to), it's nice to see nonetheless. It looks like Distimo's estimation was pretty dead-on, too: 11 of the 13 countries they listed are confirmed by Mr. Chu's post. The full list:

They're also expanding support for customers to purchase apps in 18 more countries, to a total of 32, sometime in the next few weeks:

In addition, Android Market users from 32 countries will be able to buy apps, with the addition of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan. No action is necessary if you have targeted your paid apps to be available to “All Locations” and would like to launch in these additional countries.

Wow, it's coming to Poland :-D And as I can see, there are still no paid apps on Market right now. Maybe I should check a little bit later? I'm on my Samsung i5700 Spica/Portal running at official ROM 2.1.

Dan117

What about Romania?

Discrimanted_Romanian

Romania dosen't exist. We heared some rumors about such a country, but all of our resarch showed that a place like that is not conceivable in modern human society... We strongly advice you to stay away from places like that!

Discrimanted_Romanian

Romania dosen’t exist. We heard some rumors about such a country, but all of our resarch showed that a place like that is not conceivable in modern human society… We strongly advise you to stay away from places like that!